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ADAM: THIS HOLIDAY SEASON ONE
OF THE OFFICIAL ORNAMENTS
ADORNING THE WHITE HOUSE
CHRISTMAS TREE WAS DESIGNED BY
A NEW HAMPSHIRE-BASED ARTIST.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, IT WAS
INSPIRED BY ONE OF THE WORST
CHRISTMASES EVER AT 1600
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
HERE TO DISCUSS HER CREATION IS
KAYLA WHELAN A RECENT GRADUATE
OF MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF ART
AND PELHAM NATIVE.
KAYLA, FIRST OF ALL THIS IS THE
ORNAMENT.
TELL US EXACTLY HOW DO YOU COME
UP WITH AN ORNAMENT INSPIRED BY
THE HERBERT HOOVER
ADMINISTRATION?
IT SOUNDS LIKE A DIFFICULT
TASK.
KAYLA: IT WASN'T THE EASIEST OF
PRESIDENTS TO MAKE AN ORNAMENT
BASED ON.
I DID A LOT OF RESEARCH INTO
HIS ADMINISTRATION AND JUST
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED DURING
IT.
ONE OF OUR FIRST THOUGHTS MY
CLASSMATES AND I WAS THE HOOVER
DAM OBVIOUSLY BUT WE THOUGHT
THAT W -- THE FIRE IN THE
WHITE HOUSE AND THE HEROIC
ACTIONS OF THE FIREMEN AND
EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THAT --.
ADAM: TELL US ABOUT THE STORY.
PEOPLE GENERALLY KNOW THERE WAS
A FIRE AT THE WHITE HOUSE BUT
THIS ONE WAS BAD IN THE WEST
WING IN PARTICULAR.
KAYLA: IT WAS ON CHRISTMAS EVE
AND, YEAH.
IT WAS IN THE WEST WING.
THERE AFFS PARTY HAPPENING FOR
THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND THEIR
CHILDREN IN ANOTHER PART OF THE
WHITE HOUSE WHILE THE FIRE
HAPPENED.
SO THE PARTY CONTINUED.
HOOVER AND SOME OTHER WHITE
HOUSE STAFF GOT THE
FIREFIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY
PEOPLE THERE AND THEY WERE ABLE
TO CONTINUE THE PARTY WHILE
THEY FOUGHT THE FIRE.
ADAM: DEDICATION.
WHEN DID THE WHITE HOUSE
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION REACH
OUT TO YOU AND SAY, WE WANT
THIS ONE?
KAYLA: THEY TOLD ME I HAD WON
THE CONTEST IN MAY OF 2015.
I ACTUALLY ENTERED IT IN 2014.
ADAM: WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO GO TO
THE WHITE HOUSE AND KNOW THIS
WAS NOW ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE?
KAYLA: THAT WAS AMAZING.
THERE IS NO WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
I WAS IN THE BLUE ROOM AND I
KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THE
WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE IN
THERE.
ADAM: WHAT IS NEXT?
THIS WAS KIND OF A ONE-OFF
THING BUT YOU HOPE TO CONTINUE
YOUR ART.
KAYLA: DEFINITELY.
THIS IS A REALLY NICE -- I AM
GLAD I WAS TIBLE BRING THIS
STORY TO LIGHT WITH MY ART AND
I HOPE T CONTINUE MY ART AND
KEEP DOING THAT.
ADAM: WE ARE EAGER TO SEE WHAT
COMES NEXT BUT THIS IS A REALLY
COOL HONOR FOR YOU AND THE
GRANITE STATE.
KAYLA: THANK YOU.
ADAM: PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY BUY
THIS ORNAMENT.
THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION IS GOING TO BE